Sunday, September 1, 2013

Wiktionary - Recent changes [en]: diaperhood

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diaperhood
Sep 1st 2013, 09:34, by Equinox

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# {{context|informal|lang=en}} The period of time for which one wears a [[diaper]] as a child; [[babyhood]].

 

# {{context|informal|lang=en}} The period of time for which one wears a [[diaper]] as a child; [[babyhood]].

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#* '''1930''', Isaac Goldberg, ''Tin Pan Alley''

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#*: ... "Baby's Eyes" ... "Mud-Pie Days" ... "Baby Hands" ... "Creep, Baby, Creep" ... "My Mamma Lives Up in the Sky" ... "My Mother's Kiss" ... It was the '''diaperhood''' of the Alley — a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children set to children's music.

 

#* '''1992''', John Voelker, ''Trout Magic''

 

#* '''1992''', John Voelker, ''Trout Magic''

 

#*: ...all this despite the fact that I was born and raised in the same Peninsula and had been trout fishing avidly almost from '''diaperhood'''.

 

#*: ...all this despite the fact that I was born and raised in the same Peninsula and had been trout fishing avidly almost from '''diaperhood'''.


Latest revision as of 09:34, 1 September 2013

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

diaper +‎ -hood

Noun[edit]

diaperhood (uncountable)

  1. (informal) The period of time for which one wears a diaper as a child; babyhood.
    • 1930, Isaac Goldberg, Tin Pan Alley
      ... "Baby's Eyes" ... "Mud-Pie Days" ... "Baby Hands" ... "Creep, Baby, Creep" ... "My Mamma Lives Up in the Sky" ... "My Mother's Kiss" ... It was the diaperhood of the Alley — a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children set to children's music.
    • 1992, John Voelker, Trout Magic
      ...all this despite the fact that I was born and raised in the same Peninsula and had been trout fishing avidly almost from diaperhood.
    • 2007 April 24, Jan Hoffman, "Treating the Awkward Years", New York Times:
      Of those teenagers who are insured and who continue to see a primary-care doctor, a vast majority remain with the pediatricians or family doctors who have cared for them since diaperhood.

Translations[edit]

period of wearing diapers

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